Holiday Billie
Η κυρία τραγουδάει τα μπλουζ (Lady sings the blues)
The amazing autobiography of Billie Holiday (1915-1959) written with the help of William Dufty.
With harsh and emotionless language, Holiday recites her adventurous life, her relationship with men, her career, the drug problems, her imprisonment and the police chase that destroyed her. The book talks in general about what it means to be poor and black in America, about how jazz music was made in the '30s and' 40s, about clubs, tours, recordings, companies, etc., but also about how a "sickly corrupt society chased this jazz genius into a self-destructive impasse, from which there was no escape."
The edition is supplemented by a detailed catalog of all Billie Holiday recordings by Albert McCarthy, an introduction and discography guide to the CDs available today by David Ritz, as well as an insert with 31 photographs.
"Lady sings the blues" was released in 1956 by Doubleday and in Greek in 1990, translated by Ioulia Rallidi from Agra publishing house.
With harsh and emotionless language, Holiday recites her adventurous life, her relationship with men, her career, the drug problems, her imprisonment and the police chase that destroyed her. The book talks in general about what it means to be poor and black in America, about how jazz music was made in the '30s and' 40s, about clubs, tours, recordings, companies, etc., but also about how a "sickly corrupt society chased this jazz genius into a self-destructive impasse, from which there was no escape."
The edition is supplemented by a detailed catalog of all Billie Holiday recordings by Albert McCarthy, an introduction and discography guide to the CDs available today by David Ritz, as well as an insert with 31 photographs.
"Lady sings the blues" was released in 1956 by Doubleday and in Greek in 1990, translated by Ioulia Rallidi from Agra publishing house.